Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Gideons), onetime critic and foe of President Robert Maynard Hutchins at University of Chicago (TIME, June 13, 1938). Mr. Gideonse took charge of Brooklyn College last year, has bickered with its leftist students and professors ever since. One of their complaints: Mr. Gideonse once entered a restaurant through a picket line...
Next day, Brooklyn's radicals began to picket President Gideonse's home and office, by telephone. Their calls jammed his office switchboard, got him out of bed at home at 2 in the morning. Pickets also sent President Gideonse telegrams, had them delivered in dead of night. Said one, scaring Mrs. Gideonse out of her wits...
Because blonde Gerta Rozan's first good film part was eliminated in the cutting room, Austrian Actress Rozan confused Universal City traffic by patrolling the studio pavement in a strip-picket protest. By the third day, when she had got down to black satin brassière and panties, the producers summoned Miss Rozan to inform her that if she would cease they would try to fit her face back in the film. Hollywood verdict: best all-round publicity stunt of the season...
Representatives from all the Houses, from the Teachers' Union, and from the Law School and the School of Architecture have been organized to form the basis of the picket line, which will mass in the Yard outside the hall before and during the 7:30 o'clock meeting...
Seven schools and colleges of the Boston area will also send representations to protest against the rally, including Wellesley, Simmons, Radcliffe, Tufts, and M. I. T. Ten local trade unions, both C. I. O. and A. F. of L., will join the picket line as well as delegates from the Y. W. C. A., the Cambridge high schools, the Women's Neighborhood League of Cambridge, and the Pacifist League...